Romans 8:12-17, NRSV
John 3:1-17, NRSV
Reflections
Trinity Sunday is the day when we stand back from the extraordinary sequence of events that we’ve been celebrating for the previous five months — Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost — and when we rub the sleep from our eyes and discover what the word ‘god’ might actually mean.
— Tom Wright, For All God’s Worth
- Discovering God thru journey and pilgrimage
- God is rescuing you, is leading you to new creation, is the Father, the Creator, the Indweller
- Heaven and Earth are closer than we think
- Church (temple) is not safe heaven from earth; it is where Heaven and Earth comes together
- There were thoughts that God would lead Israelites another Exodus, out of Romans
- The disciples were on the journey/pilgrimage themselves, leading all the way to Jesus’ resurrection
- God begin change of the world is not the way people often think, e.g. military power with armies and tanks, but thru the weak, the meek, the broken-hearted, to help others of weak, building schools and hospitals
- We cannot be just passage of journey/pilgrimage, we are to born again
- Trinity is more than just dogma, more than intellectual theology
- Romans 7-9 is really an Exodus story
- Christian is to inherit the new creation on earth, not the Heaven
- Flesh in the world comes to us and say, we owe them
- Flesh is human nature
- Flesh or spirit, slavery or freedom, our choice
- Jesus’ Abba the father experience, prayer at the Garden of Gethsemane, being torn over doubt and temptation
